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Important: Apple recommends that developers explore QTKit and Core Video for new development in this technology area. See QTKit Framework Reference and Core Video Programming Guide for more information.
Introduction To QuickTime Movie Playback Programming Guide
This document describes how to open and play stored media, including QuickTime movies and other formats that QuickTime can automatically import and play, from sources such as a file, URL, pointer, or handle.
This document supersedes and replaces "Opening and Playing Movies."
The information in this document is of interest to nearly all developers working with QuickTime.
This document is intended for programmers working in C or C++ using the Carbon or QuickTime for Windows frameworks. Cocoa developers should generally use the QuickTime Kit framework instead, but may have occasion to use the interfaces described here for access to low-level functions not duplicated in Cocoa.
Organization of This Document
This document contains the following sections:
See Also
Before you read this document, you should already be familiar with QuickTime Initialization Guide and QuickTime Overview. If you are new to QuickTime, see Getting Started with QuickTime.
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